alexcrist / stag-hunt

A game based off of the game theory 'stag hunt' game

Stag Hunt

How to devlop

• Open two terminal tabs

• In one, run yarn start:dev

  • This starts up the back end
  • If a change is made to the back end files, the server restarts automatically

• In the other tab, run yarn bundle:dev

  • This bundles all the front end .js files into a single bundle.js payload which can be served to the front end
  • If a change is made to the front end files, the bundler will rerun automatically

TODO

• Splash screen, "Hunt the stag together (wasd)"
• Hunger bar
• Collision detection with animals
  • Eat
  • Respawn
• Feedback of succesful catch
• Deploy
• Hype
• Animal meandering
• Back drop (maintain pixel aesthetic)
  • Lake / river (obstacle, slower speed)
• Document code

Ideas

The race

Make the stag-hunt a race to get points. Each player is not racing against one another, but aganist a global scoreboard. A rabbit is worth 1 point, a stag is worth 10 points. Once a player gets 100 points, their time is recorded and entered into a global stag-hunt leaderboard. Although each player is working individually, they should go for the stag together to each get faster times. This hopefully emulates the stag-hunt situation realistically.

Gamification

• Randomize animal speed
• Randomize animal rewards
• Have animals slow down over time (tire?)
• Record level of cooperation along with final score?
• Allow some kind of user generated content? Setting up obstacles?

Stretch ideas

• Procedurally generated infinite background??

More games

Create a suite of stag-hunt style games for different game theory games (just games with Nash equilibria that can involve cooperation rather than only defection)

• "Battle of the Sexes" (with coin flipping device to promote a "correlated equilibrium")